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I) RACTICES Operative. Surgical and Meehan
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is 1:/eparinieniN of
Omen I.neuri between be Franklin Ilon-e
and Iln.t Mien, Columbia, Pit
May 7.1-39.
Harrison's Conmbian. Ink.
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VY ,and not corroding the pro, can be bad in alit
.anttty. ail el 1%111114 $llll - C, and blacker
et t. Mai English Boot
Colombia. J one 9. 1,,59
We Have Just Received
R. CUTTER'S Improved Chest Expanding
Sispender antl shoulder Brace-for Genttrinett,
and Patent Skirt Supporter mill Brace for Ladies,
3mt the article that is Wrl wed at this time. Come
end tee them at Family 9l edieine Store. Odd rellomi ,
[April 9. Mi!)
Prof. Gardner's Soap
'WS have the New England iintip fur Mow who die
not cannot it front the -otta tunni at I. plea-inn
to the •Fin. and will lake gren.e .pot= from Women
Cootl4, it to Owlet:me no huin'nva for you gel the
worth of your money at the Faintly Medicine Store.
J une 11,
.aRAIIAM, or, Bond's Boston Crackers, for
NA 1. 4 mot Arrow iltoui Cruet:nil. foram..
walitl4 And etnint cu—new articles in Colteminu, ut
.tit Family Medicine Store.
Anril IG. IS 9.
PALIIING'S PREPARED GLUE.—The want of
,ueli anat.:telt: 14 fell in every family, mud now
it can be supplied; (r mending furnmare.
Ware.Ormltnental work, toys. &c., there is 'milting
superior. bye have found ti u•oral to ,pairing man)
whit . h hnvc beets u.elt,s for tumulus. You
Jun 2-in it at the
ouuAt FAULT MEDICINI: sTon E.
IRON AND STEEL
T 't F. Subsetilier. have reveiVerl a New and Large
:lock of vii kinds and sires of
BAR IRON AND STEEL!
They are con-tautly 'tippled with =trick in this brawl:
of his inn:i.e.. and rim iwii.h it to cuslorner4 in large
or moon quantities, at the honest tales
.1. 111:31 & SON.
Loeust street below second, Columbia, I's.
A pill 24. 1561.
RI t T v T il E d R'S Comp o und
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YER'S Compound Conrentrated• itroet
Sarmpoirillu Car the mire of Serailln Kme's
Evil, and all .rrcifu leea nfreutionq, a Ire al just
received and (or ea In loy
R. WILLIAMS, Front al., Columbia,
wept. dl, KW,
FOR SALE.
200 holt Matches, verly..l,?lt.sirf.cificzti
Dutch Herring!
ANY one fond of a good Ilereigrit : Z ., at
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Nov. 19. 180.
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nod PDRE Wl.NES.e.preially for Mettiones
lid Sacramentol purpo..e., at the
Jan. 29 1M I EX MEDICI NE STORE.
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be find only al_
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More 10, ISCO. No.:1 Loriro alreet
1 £RDEN SEEDS.--Fresh Garden Seeds, war
‘_ A ranted pure, of all teatetvect at
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POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES.
ALA Rali lot of FIIIC and Common Pocket Borth,
and Purses, at (roan 15 ceni. to two dollar• each
Ht tdourters and Newts Depot.
Columbia. April 14. I t6U.
A EEW more of those beautiful Prints
LA _ la, which will bp .old cheap, 01
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GOLD PENS, GOLD PENS.
rUST received a large and fine nvaoriment of Gold
Pena.of Newton and Griswold - a mlistufucture,
dr. 111cDONA LIPS Book Slate.
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FR ESH GIIOCEEILES.
w E eontinue io •el I th, be-il'l.evyn Syrup. Whiic
Itt and Brown Sugura, good Cnirees nod ehonfe Te o
to be had in Cohn:nal/ at the Nem Corner Nora.
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pante k Sellout:4"RM,, and at the oh/ •tnnd ndjont
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Begars, Tobacco, tr.c.
A LoTor4, .. : nde 5e.. , ,. - rob.cco and Snuff will
be fousd at the store of the ful...eriber. He keeps
may a Lt.l-raie articte. Cl4llll. • •
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PRANSERRIES,
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SARDINES.
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My Ship.
RT FLoRENCH PERCY
EIE3
Down to the wharves, a 4 the sun goes down,
And the daylight's tumult, and dust, and dm
Are dying away in the busy lowa,
I go to sec if my ship comes in.
I gaze tar over the qLiet sea,
Rosy V 1 ltil SUlltel, like mellow wine,
Where shipQ, like lie tranqually,
Many and fair—but I see not mine.
EIEI
I queqion the sailors every night
Who over the bulwark' idly lean,
Nolino the sails ns ittey come in eight
"Hove you seen my beauliful drip come inn
"Whence does she comi•T' they a•h of me—
•" Who i+ her mister. and what her name'.•'
And they smile 1111011 me pityingly
‘Vliett my answer is ever and ever the game
Oh, mine was a vessel of strength and truth,
llcr suils were white as a y oung iatnies fleece.
She sailed long since train the port of Youth—
Her master was Love and her name wan Peace
And lace all beloved and beaulectut
She faded In (titmice and doubt away—
With only ntremble of eitouty wtaga
the floated• %w%tit•litte, udowu the bay,
Currying with her a precious freight—
Ail I had withered by :eat s of pain;
A tempting prize to the pirate Firm—
Aad null I watch for her back ugaia
Watch for the earliest morning light,
Till the pale .tar• glieve o'er the tI3 ingtloy—
To catch the gleam of her eanv.t+ white'
Among the i+laitde which gem the hay.
But f,lic come+ not yet—she will never come
To gltdden my and my it more—
And my ken it grows hop,•ics4, and taint and dumb,
As I nail and 55011 on the lonesome 'hore—
Knowidg that tempo•t and time and •to:rn
hive wrecked nail ,lin.lzred my be..utcoug bark—
Rank ..ea".wceds cover her wasting form,
And her rails are mitered, aril .truned, and dark.
But the tide come, tip, told the lisle gout , down,
And the dot light follow, the night's cclip•c—
And still with the faller., tainted 1111 d brow.,
I wait on the in hitryttit and Nast the Alio.
And mill with a patienee that i••not hope,
I'or vain and empty n long bath been,
I mt en the tough .hoto'-i rocky 'lope,
And watch to -ee If nn' -hip comes in.
gatttiolls.
The "Makewake's" Dog
Loftus his name was—Lofty we mostly
called him for short; but with strangers he
answered to "Mister Loftus," nothing loss
than that. Passengers and visitors in the
ship used to try and make friends with him
in the usual coaxing way, but he never took
the least notice of them. If they had any
thing to say, they must call him by his
proper title—talk straight out, with no non
sense about "good fellow, "or "fine old
dog," or any such phrases; then he would
listen respectfully, and understand what
was said, too.
I sailed in the Makewake with hint going
on eight years, and will say I never had a
better ship-mate. Orderly and good-natured.
ho never made the least trouble, and
wouldn't allow anybody else to either, if he
could' help it. I don't think ho would in
terfere between the officers and the crew,
but when we were bringing emigrants Loftus
would always put a stop to distnrbances
among them.. He would single out the loader
in the fight, throw hint, and hold him down
until the others came to the rescue. Some
times he had to throw two or three, but the
steerage soon learned to stow shilalahs
whenever Mr. Loftus appeared. I remem
ber ono time, we wore lying in the Welling
ton Deck at Liverpool, taking on a lot of
Fardowners—and the Steward had some dif
ficulty with one. His only argument was
n rope's end, and when Lofty thought the
poor Greek had enough he intimated as
much quite plainly. But by some means
the Steward contrived to get a line in his
collar and to make it fast in the main rig
gin; then the Fardowner had to suffer. Pret
ty soon the dog parted the line with his
teeth, quietly went ashore, and rolled him
self over and over in the thick, black tide
mud—stole on board again and crawled,
whole length, into Mr. Steward's berth.—
After that be wouldn't go to market for it
long time, and on the whole, I think the
Steward g t rather the worst of it.
Ile did rill our marketing--Loftus did, and
never once made a mistake to my knowl
edge. They would try tricks with him
sometimes, but were very likely to pay for
it by loss of his custom. Ho was acquain
ted with most of the market-men, and if one
did not treat him well he would go to anoth
er.
I Sailerlin Stirling and Field's Lino five
years before I got to be first mate, and then
the very next voyage I came near losing the
number of my mess. While we were in
Liverpool the cholera broke out among the
shippingand we ley in that steaming mud
hole from the first of July until the last of
August before we could get men . enough to
take the craft to sea. Meant-me we lost
poor Captain. Ileputorth—the.hest officer in
the line—and I came pretty nigh going too.
Lams watched me and tended me like a
true friend, and I do believe if it hadn't
been for him I -never could have pulled
through, for there was hardly any one to
even pass a cup of water.
When the new Captain came down from
London - he called on me, 'and I didntt like
his looks at all. He was smooth spoken
enough, too, but his eyes wore vicious, and
I felt- sure we should have trouble. He
said the ship was quite ready for sea, and as
soon as I was able we would sail. Not to
make farther detention, I was carried on
board in a cot. and we hauled out of dock
on the next tide. In the cabin I found
another cot, beside which a young lady was
sitting with a fan, while Captain Darcy was
busy- preparing the state-rooms. I then
learned that our cabin passengers were an
old man named Archer and hie grand
daughter Jennie.
Ptsor old Mr. Archer! He was far too ill
to undertake such a _voyage, but ho insisted
on going with the hip, feeling sure he should
recover when the cool Atlantic breeze began
to blow. Well, the first Sunday at sea we
buried him.'
Little' Jennie 'Archer Nene left entirely
alone„without n friend in the world, sore an
aunt in. Brooklyn to whom she was going.—
The good. strong-hearted girl bore up
inl)rave
ly-irr. thot g;:rrorr fi ll time, And 'even ber
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY AIORNING. SEPTEMBER 14, 1861.
deepest grief found opportunity to render
me a thousand kind services. When I first
began to crawl out in the cabin L noticed
Captain Darcey's cril eye often wandering
towards her with a peculiar expression that
alarmed me. I was troubled and didn't
know what to dn. I could not say anything
to Jennie, and, unable to stand alone, I
could not in any way protect her. In this
difficulty Loftus came to my :dd. Ile would
guard the lone girl fir better than I, and his
dislike to Captain Darcy was stronger even
than wino.
And so I contrived that Jennie and L .fits
should become great friends. -S:10 WU+ the
kindest and gentlest little soul that ever
lived, and the dog learned to love her ti re
than he eter did another human being.—
Lofty never had a mistress, the Makewake
V 741.9 his mistress, and ho clung to the ship
through all her ch trip:es of crew, officers, and
owners. But to Jennie he seemed to attach
himself as dogs usually do to their owners,
or even inure closely. •Ifter fairly under
standing that she must be watched and pro
teased, he hardly left her an hour in the day,.
and slept before her door at night.
By the tim, I was able to ga about a lit
tle—and out on deck when the sun was nut
too warm—Jennie Archer had quite won my
heart and I W 43 much hurt to find that she
grew more reserved as health reiumed to
me; the little womanly ministrations, which
had been so grateful, were gradually dis
continued. Yet we were very friendly, and
being the only idlers in the after part of the
ship, we were with each other a great deal
Our long pleasant evenings on deck and
morning readings in the cabin were the hap
piest hours I had ever known. I3tat I did
nut believe that I was making any progress
in her affections—that is, I did not think
that she would ever care for me as I did for
her. I was pleased to see, however, that the
Captain's attempts to be agreeable were,
quietly but decidedly repulsed. lie saw it,
too, after a while, and his Irateful disposition
thereafter began to show itself. lie perse
cuted poor Jennie without mercy whenever
he could find an opportunity, and though
Loftus and I were seldom of duty, he yet
contrived to make her suffer from his spite in
a thousand ways. her simple dignity and
unswerving faith in herself during these
trials made me love her very dearly. She
never complained to the at all, not even
when I found her, one time, weeping, heart
broken, and fr.ghtened, with litt'e bits of a
note from him scattered over the floor.
Captain D.trcy made no secret of his rage
and vengeful temper; he seemed to consider
that ho owed defeat to me, and hated me ac
cordingly. "You think yourself d—d
smart," he would say; "but I'll :Mow yon
I'm not the man to he ',milked by any such
whelps as you and that dog. You may do
your d—ost, but I'll 'nester her yet, and
then I will settle with yon, yonng man."
I didn't aniaid his threats much, knowing
him to he cowardly, like other mean souls:
lint I kept closer watch than ever over Jen
nie, and fed Loftus widt my own hand. ti
which care I think he owes his life
On the thirty-fifth day out we were off the
Bank., and about noon I went up with Cap
tain Darcy to take the sun. Lofty assisted
in the observation, as he always did with the
utmuet gravity, and Miss Anther added her
smile to the brightness of the hour, happy
—thought I—to know our voyage wasso near
ly (low?. While working up my calculations
I noticed the Captain hastily deseending the
cabin gangway. I thought it odd he did not
wait fur the result), and directly I was furth
er enprised to find that Loftus had also
dis
appeared. I didn't think mach ,tbout it all.
though. I wits alone with her far, perhap4,
the last time, and Lingered a good while be
low to make my entry in the log. It seem•
ed to me that she hail never looked so kind
ly upon me as then, and I 'e tine very near
telling her how dearly I had learned to prize
her favor, and asking that it might be mine
forever. But I felt as though that would be
taking a certain advantage of her needing a
protector, and, in some sorepresuming upon
the claim I might be supposed to have--r
the words which trembled on my tongue
were not spoken. I afterwards wished they
had been.
Entering the cabin nt last, we were start
led by sounds of strife, evident strugglim.%
force growls, and a storm of curse.. Fer
the first time Jennie's courage gave way:
yet, even then, she seemed more hart than
afraid as she leaned against me. sobbing.—
"Oh, (leaven! he's in my room!"
And so indeed it wag. Crouche I d we in
one carncr—a pitiable sight indee
Captain Darcy with L,ftu•r' teeth in Mg
throat. He still clutche I the leatlier belt
which contained Jennie's little f.,rtune, and
in a sailor's bag at his feet I foand ery
thing else of the least value which ghe pas•
sewed in the world —even the letters to her
friends.
Llftus must have seen indignation and
horror in my face, f,r he Mune liately re-:
newed his attack with the utmost ferocity,'
and it was only by Jennie's best efforts ho
was prevented from killing the wretch on
the instant—ho wouldn't listeti to me at all.
As it was, Captain Darcy had to be car
ried;
ashore when we arrived. and I rettlem-1
ber they used the very seine cot that I was
brought aboard in. During the fever which
followed he was delirious Tart of the time,
and I had gathered from his wild talk that
he hail hoped. by reducing Jeanie to utter
poverty, he emit,' make her dependent upon
him and ,submissive to his will.
Thanks to Li ftus the robber was caught
in the act, and I half envied the dog his re- i
ward of fond gratitude. He accompanied
her to Brooklyn when her friends came for
her, and after that he used to run over there!
every day or two. As the Captain's duties I
fell to my hands I was unable to leave the
ship for more than a week, but sooa as I
could get off, I made a visit to Jennie in
her new home. A very nice place it was,
away out on Clinton Avenue, and I found
her delighted with it, as well she might be-
Her friends, ton, were just the pleasantest
sort of people, received me very
But somehow I felt disappointed and un
comfortable, though I couldn't tell why for
the life of me. Jennie's manner to me was
'the same as it always had been, except a
little embarrassment at first; she was very
friendly and confiding as ever, bat yet I felt
that in Clinton Avenue she was very far
away from me and from the life we had
lived together. Then there was a good look
' ing young chap at the house who played on
the piano and sang with Jennie, and who
had all-those pleasant little aecn.nplishments
which show cultivation and good-breeding.
Well, I liked him—l hadn't any spite at all
—hot couldn't help thinking that 'longsids
Ihis fine gentleman's graces, my plain sail.
or ways appeared to small- advantage. SO
r did not enjoy my visit as I had anticipated
bat welt away as early as possibls,:yezed
and dissatisfied with myself and everybody
el4e.
C.tptitin Darey got an ides into his on
settlel mind that Jennie and I were going
to proceed against him for piracy on the
high seas, and th ugh I assured him that
neither of us had a. y such intention, he
became frightened, and suddenly disap
peared from his hotel before I believed him
able to go about. I halo never seen hint
or heard of him from that day to this. When
I reported tin flight to Stirling 3 Field, our
ownerc, they seemed rather glad than other
wise, ai.d much to my surprise immediately
-itTered the eiimmand of the Makewalie to
Dan the long days of eonvaleseenee.
wilco 1 cal t der tint little else. I had dreamed
again nod again of the limo when I should
he Captain of the Makewake, and lie in po
skima tii offer Jennie Archer a home as well
as a heart. These had been visions of hap.
piness to me; but new, when they might be
realized, their brightness failed fast—it
seemed highly iinprobable that I should ev
er make Jennie an offer of anything at all,
and being Captain of a Liner didn't amount
to nineh any way. However, I accepted the
proposition gladly enough, and thereafter
staid by the ship more closely than ever.
Loftus :tilt continued his visits to Clinton
Avenue. being over there, indeed, at least
half the time. though he always came home
at night. My first experience there had
not been of a sort to encourage my going
again—so, when the Mikewake way neorly
ready for sea, I sent by Loftus a note to Jen
nie, apologizing for not calling, and saying
good-bye. Of course I half hoped he would
bring some little reply from her—and so he
did. She wished particularly to see me, and
begged I would come to her before I sailed.
%Veil, I was delighted! I spread all the light
canvas I could carry, and bowled over there
—gay as a lark. The very first thing I saw
way Jennie walking around the grounds with
that good looking young follow—talking so
earnestly and gazing up to his face in such
'e charming way—it just took me flat aback;
I wished myself aboard ship again and out
side the Hook. I don't know but I might
have run away, only Loftus attracted the
children's attention, and then 'twas too late.
I had not been in the house ten minutes
when I noticed an understanding of some
sort between Jennie and the handsomeyoung
gentleman. They had consultations and
side glances, and looks toward me—as I
thought—and, finally, it ended in his pre
senting to me, in behalf of Miss Jennie
Archer, a very fine gold chronometer and
chain.—lfe delivered it with a little speech
of which I hardly heard a word—l was so
confused. Passengers aboard ship often
'neat in the cabin on coming into port and
give the officers something or other to re,
me ober the voyage by, and I had certain
phrases which were always used on such
occasions. I got thorn off os well as Ie i
and sat dowli in a corner to think the mut
ter over.
I don't like people who are over sensitive,
emdly grieved, and perpetually feeling hurl.
I think it generally slioWN a mean dispositi in;
but I do suppose that was about my state ti;
mind. This thought I, is what she wanted
me for. This watch means payment in full
of all demands against her; and Ale djirt
want Inc, even while going to Liver !) , tl :Lod
Intel:, to h ire an idea that she was under
any obligation to me. A valuable gift set
tles the old accounts, and leav:), her free to
open new honks. What a fool I have been!
But I'll net be any more—l'll never trouble
her again, that's certain.
Stich bitter, gl rimy reveries is these kept
Coming all afters ,mi. Meantime I hardly
knew what tilt with the iv itch. I came I
it amen[ in inv hand a 1,11.4 rime, 11.1:1 fithldy
ofint up the velvet case e rnt.untng i:,
stock it int t my emit p teket. I :11.inik.1
Jennie in an awkward, .1,1.1 way, ttlid felt
an ugly satisfaction in noticing, sur
prised and ;grieved she looked. Ido nit
think. however, that any one else perceived
my spiteful temper. I never had hotter
success among y aing filks that, that after
0000. I determined t sl) ,w that I didn't
care for any tine intrtionlarly, and tried illy
best to be enterrmiiimg mid ftgreeable to all
the girls in the bou-e--tacceeding. as I
better than ever Ire: ,re. But toy heart—
the while tine— , ran more and more
vrith stub tronble 1 emotions. Gradually
pride art I vexation gave way to the old ten
derness for Jennie, and as [ thow-ht of the
long, weary hours I had to pass, without a
hope of her, in the very place where we had
ft , / lately been happy together, I realized
how dear site had become to ine—how utter•
lc drl,late and lonely I was destined to be.
A t • I could keep up the arpoaranee of'
cheerfulness no longer, and determined to
steal sway—never to return.
I looked all about. quietly, for Loftus,
and after some time found him in a little
summer house in the garden. 'Twits now
quite d ask, but with him I recognized Jennie,
her arms al»itt his neck, her face bidden
in his long fleecy coat. Sho ststrted as I
spoke and would hero run away, but Loftus
was seated upon her dress and would nut
move "I'm sorry to part old friends," I
said: "but Loftus and I must A zo now. Mias
Jennie. I wanted to say "Miss Archer."
bur couldn't.
"Are you going away angry, when we
hare nlways understoo I each other so well?"
How ashamed and repentant I felt, finding
the poor girl had been crying: "No indeed,
Jennie," I answerd; "I am not angry now
Forgive me for hurting you by accepting
year present with ranch had grace—l was
vexed then but nm not any more. Believe
me. I do understand, and I see; you could
not hare told me in a. more delicate way.
Good-bye, Miss Jennie—do not feel troubled
about me; I'll try never think of you again
as I used to."
"What have I done so dreadfully wrong
that you should change so? Only the watch?
Is that all?
"Pray don't think you have done wrong.
You hove always been fair and sincere with
me and I have only myself to blame. I
shall esteem and respect you as ever."
"We may befriends' then? You will visit
me when you return?"
"No, no, Jennie. T could not do that. If
you ever need me, I shall be only too happy
to servo you; but, otherwise. I hope thil will
be our last meeting in the world. After all
you have been to MP, and all I hare dreamed
you might he, I could net bear to see you
happy with another, even th3ug,h he is more
worthy of you."
She turned away. covering her face with
her dear little hinds. sobbing as if her heart
would break: ' 0. mother what sbaTl I do:
what shall I do!"
I had been standinc• at the door of the
Rummer hoo.e. moeh farther airitr than i
aged to he in our t tixA ,n44.tr.1 the Make.
wake, and Lofty did oot riciderstaud_ it at
all. 110 walked from one to the other.
Growling. troubled. and perplexed. When
Jennie beg.tn to cry ho seized my nrm,
.Iragg , fl me across the fli.or, and palled trio
dowo at her feet.
The darling girl pat Intik her arms around
my neck, nestled her beautiful head upon
my shoulder and without a word we did
understand each other right well at last.
We hare Often tried to persuade Leiftus to
stay at home and keep Jennie company
while I am away in the Makewake. but he
novel would desert the ship. Whenever
we arrive in New York, though, the instant
we touch the dock, ho bounds away to tell
hi a dear mistress her husband has come
home.—Lbrper's Treddy.
Confessions of a Green Tea Drinker
I=
I em a nervous woman, and I used to
drink green tea. These two circumstances
have given me some opportunities of study-
ing the mysteries of that border region
which lies between the spirit world and the
mutual. Nut that Ih. cc tried to pry into
them; but they have t vied into me most se
verely
and. painfully. Nerve+ and green
tea have both of them a wonderful tendency
to elevate the faculties n 1 sensation, and lay
us open to all the wandering influences that
come to us. I have heard inure "voices of
the night," I think, than Mr. Longfellow
I ever did, and I have tried to study and ells
sify them. There are three kinds of voices,
end three kinds of apparitions. First,
those front the outer world, produced by
veritable impressions on the organs of sense.
Secondly, those which are purely spiritual,
and which only come to the inward ear or
eye. Thirdly, thu-a which are partly both,
and belong to that mastic border-land I
spoke of, which separates the ;calm of pure
spirit, from the realin of pure sen-ation.—
My experience has been principally in the
latter, though I confess that the boundary
lines of this middle region are some:inies
very dim and wavy.
Swedeuborgians believe that all ohjects,
animate and inanimate, have their own
sphere of magnetic in:lot:nee, very subtile
and pervadieg, and I believe this is philo
sopltieally true. But in dna day time this
universal influx is not gsl perceptible. and
think too, it is less active and operative. In
the night, when deep sleep bath Ellieu upon
all the rest ~f mankind, if you will lie awake,
with the Neso , e z.liarpened and clear, you can
hear tliC , l! Plamlleti • wave- erm.sing, each
other in :ill and things which t•e
fore ever were known to cult 11.1i50.4 can
sometime.: loaf d. hen,
how it , become-:
Sons 1. 1 o s t • o .1 an
t , to.llth f .titr.lol,E zEilcitif the
hunk; pc Waiklog un the root Or over
the ch,....ber 11.11..C.1 • dibttre•s OUt
1!U•c...111142.: ...tattipillg , :tild thumping+
it. the ....no wiled+ away in the
distance, coming low ler and ne..rer. and
stopp lig short, right opposite the house. and
seeraidg m vanish altogether; jars, :VI
of an incipient eartnquake, mit!. a Nlight but
very di-tine• rattlic.4 of . the window , : explo
..-tpeetally in co!:1 from the
crack of a rifle; 1.1:1.1 birds. at first in the
di-lance hot tr.., elhag nearer atol C an.ng
a:. ~:e s.g.. that :orate
dents place h. th.• ~ , J/11C-11111.!).
11111.!) . ILE an I st apping.
pr l••• t NV..CE'B, :I ha rr
iog I ,ez. lon a minor
ttt , etota,:l:. ' , :e I her..l
.tr ;;.11 -. .41 1 1 p10h..-
hly a prol,n,gt...i.h. Orthe I•.‘V -moldering
and I vv w .c whi he-
ill vv,o, 1110 1.1 11. 1,1111 % . 1 Inch haltlre ha.
k •ju up can be
01. y llt 7.'l' . 4/1 • 11di t the ii 1,1112 . —. lit! LIZ -/.
111 ii y4.tt he.l,. .4o I a
„real .11•31 ,ii we. if piu li ,h.rp avr.ike I git
nine , i'eliielt till three A it N the 1.
of thet , e ita'd rpiritual
re:thtie- that vary idte• de.ie.%, "
%die i we hoar :1.'1.04 in tit
I never joined a ••eirc'e, ' c-dle 1 I believe
ni ire faslthetably a 3:7 Dace, ~t ll3 of my
imigddoirs is a waiiii ,pitmuolist an I tlitoks
the "inanifemitioni" are to rmolutionizm
.ill horn w :ash.. Ile come in olie t: eating
:Ind wonted to exhibit dent ,nQtrative evi
dence of t his new nem ontatiey. Sere enough,
tables tipped, responses came. mid my
great-grandmother, who d ed thirty years
ago, lettered near, and with the ntphabet
spelled out my secret history. My husband
ponhed at the whole thing, though neither of
us could explain it. My great-grandmother
bade ma good night, saying. .'to prove to
you that i•pirits do communicate, I'll wake
you tonight na 12 o'clock."
I slept that night two hours, but awoke
exactly at tuidlidgmt, and heard every stroke
of the town chick its the twelve vibrations
rolled off into the b iundless night; and then
the burdening undertone of nature teas all
that could be heard for five minutes. Then
a sound came which I had never beard be
fore. Knock, knock—kunck;—throo at
time, strokes as distinct as anything I ever
heard in my life. They came uniformly
three at n time, and about once a minute. I
traced the sound in all directions, but it
seemed to come from nowhere in particular.
Then suddenly a burst of music tilled the
room. It sounded like a llighland bagpipe.
only thought it more Sweet and melodious.
It would rise clear and full, and melt away
again in mournful softness, sometimes seem
ing close at hand, and anon away off through
woods and over the hills. It'suggested im
mediately long files marching and counter
marching through devious and winding
ways. .111 my senses were sharpened. I
looked intently, expecting to see squadrons
and cavalcades burst into sights but they
vanished sway ngttin, ns if playing the Dead
March of Saul in sheltered" glades or over
the graves of heroes slain. I tried to wake
my husbanC. I have ni theory about the
equality of sexes.: but I must say that I
think these men without any nerves are
provokingly stupid. Mr. Smith is one of
the best husbands; but he was dreaming of
his lay and potato crop, and it was u great
while before I could open his tenses to these
bagpipes of the spheres.
'• Wake up, Mr. Smith, my great grand
mother has come with a band IlEmusia."
"A fig for your great-granlaother. D 3
let her eler.m and me too."
'•Rut will yon listen just this once"'
"No, no: you are always hearing grime
strange thing or other. I've run enough ou
your fool's errands after ghosts ant rob
bers."
"But•owi11 you tell me honestly whether
you hear anything? I am in no fear of
t riv,sts ju.t. now. But you know the words
of the •an„—
n h+rrr keer,
rdua W l 4 1 ell 4rlll fur,
Wheal V0.1,Cl •0.11. ttle w e.rpl is Sktjr
meet Ti.. then.''• •
81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2 00 . IF NOT IN ADVACEN
Well I dvelare." , :ta 1 Mr Sall: do
hPar n 'ram hitt* 1%1 ta! I;7• nnta w "t .
Mr. S•nith laid las ear eat td'u!:y at) •at the
room, :and tthorel up the AVIII , i•tw and litt
felled. Very •ttaa he *lammed the window
(low, curl loroLe into a rvar of laughter.
"What k it, Mr. Staitn?"
Mr. Smith %Tatul ! vitt: answer, hut rulled
into bet roil was fast subcitling int., his
dreams again, though it was a lung time
doubtful whether &minus or ?Limas had
the stronger hold of him. au,: I verily be
lieve he kept the room shaking ‘vitlf Infigh
ter lung alter he had get asleep.
I plied him the vest day lor
lien, but e% ery tinht 1 touched the -tahject I
%could shake till the ;cars knew
had solved the whole tay-dery bit. sonic
gross material philosophy: but this I was
prepared fur. because what can you expect
of these people who have uo exultation of the
inner sense?
Perhaps two months had passed, during
which I never woke up my husband either
to hear ghosts or drive away thietes from
the premises. But one night„ long to be le
membered, I woke up again jest at twelve,
and found all my senses shall eoed into a
marvelous green-ten vividness. I was 66N
veyant and clairamlant. I ceuld hear the
children breathe in the thild lft, oho of
them with a deeidelly crom.y int:lathy).—
The moon was riding in middienvet,s, c ver
ing all the fields with a nil ter glare. The
plum tree standing by the window projected
its shadows between the half drawn curtain
making figures on the carpet that stirred
like living things. All the dead watches in
the room were going tick. tick, and I cold
hear something that sounded exactly Hite
w a ter dropping upon the Stir. This an
old spin•ter sister of my grandmether has
told me was a sere sign of death. I lay a
wh..le hour and listened to it—drop, drop,
drop. I tlionAht it was probably a forerun
' tier of Charley's demise, who very likely
would lie dead with croup before morning.
I was about waking Mr. Smith to go and
see to the child. There Mr. Smith lay—his
emintenane placid as peace itself. his mind
locked in where no earthly trouble could find
entrance. But I will wait a little, thought
I—pity it is to disturb such profound and
refreshing slumber. So I lay down again.
But plainer than over, drop, drop went the
water. and tic's, tick, went the death watches.
I put the pillow over toy ears. Then I cull
hear nature playing on her minor key. Liz—
z—z—z-- Caine as the blending sphere wave
of sadness from "all objects it thought" in
the visible and invisible universe. I shut
my eyes with all my might mid tried to
sleep. i could see all kinds and shapes of
dark. Indeed I never knew what people
mean who talk of total darkness. I never
saw any such. I could see great balls of
dark and little balls, points or dark no big
ger than a pin's head or a needle's eye.—
Then the points would grow big and turn
into great balls, and the great balls would
grow little till they vanished into nothing.--
Theti there was deep ilark, and gray dark. I
and darlc of copper color, and their color
was ' , hanging Imo for the other without
cc:1841;4. Sometimes little dots ordark would
begin in the distance, and tarn to,big ones;
and Cialla up with a rush, and break in
mecel. Sometimes they would cross, mix
p, and make evolutions, us if dancing an
eight-real. But, (lark: there are wheels in
the distance, and a wagon is corning up the
roa I. Plainly more plainlyiit rumbles
toward the house; as sure as I live, it drives
into our yard and stops. What can any
body be wanting, lucre at midnight? There
,re eiv sups artma , l under the windows. I
heart', a do ,r open somewhere, or rustling in
Pl' 1'0. , 111. There is n, noise dawn in
•tsc ir. Banal something is knocked
.e: F ..,steps in the kitchen, and muffled
1, -cs!—prob thly they-are fumbling alter
:tic ...slyer. Mr. Stith h's purse is under the 1
otil perhaps they will seize it and npir
for tau poor man in his sleep. I leaned
•s er open uty clines to catch ei cry vibratinn
.1 toes ow ), and vii will judge of my feel
1,,g, n I 11, ked ti oars and s:lac the foot of a
atiekini , out Cram tinder the bed! There
it att.+ ;0 , 11 , 4 as plain as day. in the m oo n-'
light. I reasoned rapidly (tom my pretnises„
If there is a font of course there is a leg. If
there is n big there is a ,) dy, there is a head.
And if there is a heed of course it is a burg
lar. I could not -ee the least flaw in this
reasoning. I lay down and thought it nll
over. The logic icenteal complete in every
from the foot to the burglar. I I.+y in
a sweat of ag o,v :tad I cold hear a slight
rustling, and 'Semi plainly I cull hear
somebody, somebody breathing under the
bee.. The whole plot flashed upon me at
once. This fellow had concealed himself
there, waiting, for Isis ace nu:di-ie.; who came
up in the wagon, and I hail been waked up
just in the nick of time, probably by my
gt eat-grandmother, in order to save our lis es.
But how to wake up Mr Smith. and a a
bring the villain upon us! I 11110Cee , IP 1.
however. awl spoke as low as possible: "Mr,
Smith, there is a burgh.tr under the bed:—
Wake up!"
"Burglar— timpb—nonsense!"
"Hush!—hush'.—looa for your..eli"."
Sara enough, Mr. Smith started up when
he saw the projecting member, and his im
pulse, I presume, was to seize the robber
and .drag him out with his head bumping
again.d the deer stone. At any rate he
started up. made a plunge and a grab, and
brought up one of his own congress boots in
his hand. It was now dray-break. and thieves
and spectres arc said to flee alike at cock
crowing. The mysterious sounds diet away.
No sounds of wheels were heard going out
of the yard; and how that wagon could
rumble up to our kitchen door and then van
ish like a spectre, must remain a secret till
the day when all secrets are discloaed.
I learned to distrust the ear somewhat, as
it was impossible at all times to distinguish
the noises which are materialistic from the
vibrations that come from the middle sphere
into the natural. Sometimes I think there
is n confused Wending of the two. I heard
Mr. Smith give orders with a droll face on
Friday to wedge the sashes of our bed -romp
window, and fasten some pieces of the blind
that were playing in the north wind. Sitfce
then I have never board the knockings and
the -bagpipe.. Mr. Smith. cannot under
stand, and frum tho plzoo which heoccupies
cannot he expected to anderstand. that even
supposing these ligneous substances were
the mediums for the knockings and the ma ,
sic, it must have been somethihg else than
the north wind that „played upon them.—
' What but some directing intelligence amid
have timed the knockings with such precis:
i And when was the North wind ever
' taozht the notes of the gamut., awl to phiy
sunerastural woes and celestial airs?. - --
Bat thaligh noise. in the night may .orne
tiaiestbe mistaken in the blending orChttitwo
spheres together: I . here 'never learned se
EIVIIU 1.,.L UMBER, 1;6 I.
yot to mistru.4 the faculty Of ai2.7.1t: "Whit
I saw I tiiiiiight I knew. Even :kat ore s't
die supped robl,or was not one of 'optical
lluaou, bit of false reasoning • from car
t oct premises. I cx.lld act ,aee w-lry a ro
man's perceptions Ncera not as goad as an
body's even -admitting tha: stye eight 'ndt
reason. with perfect soundness all the '1,1"
from a boot to a burglar. -
I awe he one night again just-about twelve.
There had been all day notes of
.pyo_paration
for one of those ccluinoetial ettnwas,
during %%hie,' the sensoriuni i 4 preteroatd
i.tily exalted Corral the bad spirits to piny in
to ir. I lay mid listened to the moanings
r die east wind as it came in dismal corn
pht:niagq around the earners, and it seemed
that the drispairing cry of a tl.ousniol
shipwrecked sailors had pitched the breeze
that melancholy key. When I Toured
there was n thick fog, which had bldt.ted
..ut the lanidieiti e, and I could new hear it
eimilensini.: in heavy di ops upon the window
panes. My curtains were drawn close.—
What was my surprise when a light in the
rosin suddenly arrested my eye. It
was on the side of the roitti near in )
picture, and it tent a pale
flic!ier over her veineralile features.
was very wonderful, the li,sht sham
more definite than the dasr i .„er of Mactrst:.,
6,rming %ery di.tinetly tits nitial9 of my
Immo, %%ittl a hand poi,ding Cpwar - J. Thus:
N. S. pa
What can all this mean? It is no fouttoPt:l
play of the moottbenins. for there is no moon
to-night 111111 the •11t/ILI) is already iLtizzling
against the windows. Besides tv
the moon be writing my namo oil t1, , 3 War?
thought over the water drornin.:74 au ho
night birds, and I could nor W/111.11 1:161 this
W/1.1 the prelude of my ht•rt CH from
earth. I thought over all my ci •rm:
how I scold » I Ma rg ret lazy,
and how I whipped Tommy for. sitting
down in the mud with his Sunday pant ,
I closed toy eyes. The light itmished, but
balls of dark were movine, in ali direct:ions.
and sometimes I eould see the N. S. io gray
t r copper clor. Bat whenever I arctic.(
them, there the initials Were 611 one
place. bright and phovsphore , eenr. right tint
der my grandmother's picture nn the with.
Mr. Smith observed tan the next ano:riirig
at breakfa.:t, haggard and troubled, Jlll i in
quired verb• kindly into my c.t , e. I kr.c.,7
he could not understand we. nor enii.r into
my reelingq. How disae•eing for horiband-i
end wives to have secrets which they can
not share with eacli other.
"I believe I ma to learn, yrm .".ifr Smith,"
finally came oat rather pensigily. •
"Where on earth are you going to?" drop
ping hie knife and fork.
"Going hence—m . l'o opal el, I am tif.-a:a."
"If you are not prepared, you Lad better
stay a while longer."
“Now don't joke William. I prix
I'm not in the mood for that: but tell
you what warnings hero been sent to tau
-and I de,eribed minutely tho letters oa
the wall and the hand pointing upivird.
"But don't you see, my dear, that your
theory don't hold! You say pm are not
prepared. Don't you ere in that case. that
the hand would have pointed dom.:mare"'
I knew perfectly well, hefnre. El+la Ver
ner 1‘1.4 written, that physicians are incura
bly sceptical, and heal on resolving every
thing into natural causes. Butt-ever, I sent
for Dr. Speer, to see if I could not got sumo
relief for my ensile 'the I nerves and broken
rest. "fie a-ked me it thou-un I ritte-tinne,
and speared into me with his deep net black
eyes, culling up his lip at all my theories.
-Wh it do you eat and di-ink?"
"I lope I am temperate, Siwar.
take nothing that can int , xintto, anti I tro=t,
I am in no dangor of delirinin trot:tens."
• . E.it hot bread, likely, to bleep nit?"
sir.—not always."
!WIC!, p isun d you put into it?"
I om too much of a Christian to
poi,oi the food of my family."
4 •Then you tllfl 61 better Christian than
must housi , keepers."
"Anrtea on hand? Let me look at it."
I brought him tit° teaillin. Ile put a
pinch into his mouth.
"Humph—Prussian blue," smaeliing his
lips.
Aoother pinch.
Another pinch.
' 11,1 mph—sulphate of limo."
"Nludeme, you take poison enough every
week to kill an able-babied man, if a d= I n _
;store,/ in a single dose: buttakon
it pr..duces a chronic irritation of the mem
branes of the sumach, thence of the nerves,
producing what you call milt:Alen of the -'
.cases. I have no doubt that you eroright, •
nod that you saw last night the forerunner
of your death, if you drink Abell stuff as
this. I will not leave you any -prescription
of medicine, hat only a prnscriptinn of
poison. You can take brandy with less in
jury than green ten, and, in mg' opinion; •
with less questionable morality."
There are compensations in every thing.
I followed Dr. Speer's suggestions, and gain
ed very much in health and count! sleeping,
waking up at four•in the morning instead of•:,'
twslve at 'night. But I lust my faculty of
sharpened perception, and my sensurien,
sank down into the lower degrees, with
those of the children of onetb. soma-`T
thing to be-lifted up into the 'confidences of.
nature—up to where the whispers her tie- ,
crets,—up to where you can hear the aurae.,
rious flux • and reflux of her unseen' and
eternal wares► Something ie gained. But :
it is moots to have one's finer tiesuesjangled%
by being made the organ of the billion '-
splieres. much to he made the sport and de
rision of the dwellers below. Something, is
lost. Even Margaret, the maid, was found
in a-broad grin after the story of these speo
trill initals, insisting that she was up-..
that night till after twelve, and that the
light of her window in the L.' Wei . reflected
upon mine. and Mr. Smith found rents
in my curtain, just big enough, he imag ,
fined, to let in the handwriting, and project it .1
under grandmother's picture. As if it 7tarpen
ed to make:jest those letters, and nono otter!
I have no-question that these people would
make out that the writing on the wall at
Belshizzar's feast was the reflection of 3_,
jack o'-lantern from the bogs of the-Dephra
tes.—Monaly litigious Magazine. '
lierlf ,you are non ,:icon of being green,-1
and don't want folks to sea it, try to be au A
invisible green.
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Bias saddle? Ans. Because-it bolds a ,p 4.
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